Kenya national rugby union team supporters, like these celebrating victory over Germany, face a compulsory vaccine mandate.
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Manufacturing is just one part of the vaccine ecosystem. It’s the health system that delivers vaccines and people must be willing to take them.
Senegalese foreign minister Aissata Tall Sall and US secretary of state Antony Blinken at a news conference.
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The recent visit of the US secretary of state to Nigeria, Kenya and Senegal appears driven by the fear of China’s inroads in Africa as well as the need to mend diplomatic fences.
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Stigma and criminalisation of same-sex relationships makes it difficult for transgender women and men who have sex with men to seek preventive services. This compounds their risk for HIV infection.
Somalia is one of East Africa’s terrorism hotspots.
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All terrorism in the region has domestic origins but is linked to regional and international events.
4.5 million-year-old cranium of the fossil elephant Loxodonta adaurora, from Ileret, Kenya, in right lateral and front views.
Figure courtesy of Carol Abraczinskas, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
Many of the temperatures presently being recorded in Africa, and those projected in the next decade, are already close to the limits of human survival, or “liveability”.
Real-time surveillance has been key to the global pandemic response.
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Tea growers in Malawi and Kenya wanted site-specific climate information to help them manage and plan their farming practices to maximise yield and quality.
A section of the construction site of the Nairobi Expressway Project along the Uhuru highway in Nairobi, Kenya.
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A consequence of a warming world is prolonged dry spells and periods of drought that can lead to infectious diseases like cholera.
An officer of the National Integrated Identity Management system collects data for Mr Charles Chepkwony’s digital ID in 2019 in Baringo, Kenya.
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Studying ancient DNA in Africa is valuable for understanding human evolution, population migrations, and human history locally, regionally and globally.